Countries
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Belarus, Poland
Total No. Of Countries
32
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Abkhazia
Belarus, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Poland
Speaking Continents
Europe
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Czech Republic, Lithuania, Ukraine
Regulated By
-
National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
- Since 1918, Belarusian has been the official language of Belarus.
- Belarusian include many loanwords from Polish language.
Similar To
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Russian and Ukrainian
Derived From
Caucasian languages
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
6248
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
26
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
6039
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Cyrillic
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
66
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
27 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
dobry dzień
Thank You
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
Dziakuj
How Are You?
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Jak vy ?
Good Night
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Dabranač
Good Evening
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Dobry viečar
Good Afternoon
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
dobry dzień
Good Morning
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Dobraj ranicy
Please
амритана
Kali laska
Sorry
Амарахь
Vybačajcie
Bye
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
da pabačennia
I Love You
-
JA liubliu ciabie
Excuse Me
Извините (Izvinite)
Vybačajcie
Dialect 1
Bzyb
North-Eastern Belarusian
Where They Speak
Abkhazia
North-East Belarus
How Many People Speak
106,000.007,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Abzhywa
South-Western Belarusian
Where They Speak
Caucasus
South-West Belarus
How Many People Speak
106,000.007,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Sadz
Middle Belarusian
Where They Speak
Turkey
Middle Belarus
How Many People Speak
106,000.007,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
0.13 million9.63 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.13 million7.60 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-5.89 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Беларуская мова (Bielaruskaja mova)
Alternative Names
Abxazo, Abkhazian
Belarusan, Belorussian, Bielorussian, Byelorussian, White Russian, White Ruthenian
French Name
abkhaze
biélorusse
German Name
Abchasisch
Weißrussisch
Pronunciation
[abxaz]
[bʲɛlaˈruskʲi]
Ethnicity
Abkhaz people
Belarusians
Origin
c. 1650
18th century
Language Family
Northwest Caucasian
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Abkhaz
Belarusian
Language Position
2879
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Abkhaz Sign Language
Belarusian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ab
be
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
abk
bel
ISO 639 2/B
abk
bel
ISO 639 3
abk
bel
ISO 639 6
abks
bel
Glottocode
abkh1244
bela1254
Linguasphere
No data Available
53-AAA-eb < 53-AAA-e (varieties: 53-AAA-eba to 53-AAA-ebg)
Types of Language
Language Type
Historical
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-